YouTube's Blogger Brouhaha
John Boudreau writes in The Mercury News:
Some bloggers created a minor uproar this week when they noticed the viral video site's user's agreement included what they thought was a suspicious clause.More here.
But while the digital era poses possibilities and perils, in this case it was much ado about a little legalese.
The YouTube user's agreement said people, by submitting content, give the company "a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the user submissions in connection with the YouTube Web site and YouTube's (and its successor's) business . . . in any media formats and through any media channels."
In short, some took this to mean YouTube could take the video you post and sell it to someone else.
posted by Fergie @ 7/22/2006 07:03:00 AM
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